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From: Rick Goyette (rjgoyetteanl.gov)
Date: Fri Feb 16 2001 - 10:17:23 CST

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    Is this part of the current pam distribution?

    >On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 01:11:24PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
    >> So all in all, it's better to use pam_unix than pam_pwdb in most cases
    >> (assuming you have a recent version of Linux-PAM).
    >
    >>From a vendor's perspective, pam_pwdb has one huge advantage which is
    >that it tries to detect where an account resides (passwd, shadow, nis).
    >AFAICT, with pam_unix you have to define this manually in the config file,
    >and there's no mixing of local and NIS accounts as with NIS compat
    >mode (the +::::: hack).
    >
    >pam_unix2 (by Torsten Kukuk) is actually much better because it emulates
    >the NSS search logic to detect where an account comes from, and uses
    >the appropriate mechanism to change it (the down side of it is that
    >you have to patch it for every new NSS flavor, but that's a different
    >story).
    >
    >Olaf
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